Put the Rule to the Test

Whether a driver is fit to drive depends on many internal and external factors. Using the Foerst software you can put it to the test under various conditions. The simulator menue enables the trainer e.g. to put a trainee in particular situations requiring an immediate reaction. Full braking or evasive manoeuvres are e.g. always required if a deer runs onto the virtual roadway or a stopsign intercepts the drive. The importance of proactive and level-headed driving can be clearly seen when driving in fog, which bears a great risk for rear-end collision accidents. Each driver who has ever undertaken a long trip in monotonous surroundings knows of the dangers of sleepiness behind the steering wheel. You can specifically put a driver in this dangerous situation on the simulator letting him drive on a motorway for a really long time. 

Afterwards, in the diagram, deviations give conclusions on concentration and reaction time of the examinee. Also, driving along a country road is full of risks. After having been behind the steering wheel a long time, your reaction time may increase, at worst, micro-sleep will be imminent. The simulator program not only allows to measure a driver's reaction time but also offers the possibility to demonstrate the effects of drink-driving or the taking of pharmaceuticals on the fitness to drive. Here the allrounder of the Foerst company offers an option never to be accomplished, of course, with a real car in real traffic. After the drive there is the possibility to evaluate the driver's performance via diagrammes and logfiles. These data provide, among others, information about speed, pedal positions, clearance to the car in front, and time to collision and are saved on the hard drive. The trainer can access these informations at any time and design follow-up drives according to the collected individual results. The simulator can also be linked with biomedical devices to register the physical reactions of a trainee in different situations.